Si Kahn (born April 23, 1944)[1] is an American singer-songwriter, and activist; he is the founder and former executive director of Grassroots Leadership.
His uncle, Arnold Aronson, executive secretary of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, helped inspire and shape Kahn's career.
He is the founder and former director of Grassroots Leadership, a non-profit organization which advocates for several causes, including prison reform, improved immigration detention policies, and violence prevention.
He called Kahn "an aficionado of poor-white virtues, but not at the expense of his vivid understanding of the labor, sadness, frustration, and small-mindedness that go along with them.
It's A Dog's Life (2019) "includes ten previously unrecorded Kahn compositions and features his vocals on three of the thirteen tracks.